We recently down sized, but we have a huge walk in pantry with plenty of shelving space to store about a 6 mos. supply of food and paper goods, as well as our normal pantry items. I still have room to fill and I love it!
Kitchen has plenty of cabinets and shelves as well ... we didn't go with granite counter tops as I didn't see it as a necessity.
Live in FL so, no basement but we just had stairs installed up to our roomy attic and put down plywood so we have ample storage.
I'd have to say ... need to extend our lanai and screen it. I miss the pool that we had, but we are aging (quickly, lol) and didn't use the one we had in the old house all that often anymore, so we use the community pool and it gets us out.